Leora Y. Bilsky (; born in 1967) is an Israeli

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at the Faculty of Law, and the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, both at

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Education

In 1991, she was a

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for Honorable Justice Aharon Barak of the

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. She passed the Israel Bar Association in 1992 and subsequently joined the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Association for Israeli Studies. In 1995, after being granted a

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, Bilsky completed her JSD degree at

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Career

In 1996, Bilsky joined the Tel Aviv University faculty of Law as a Lecturer. During the 1998–1999 academic year, Bilsky was a Faculty Fellow at

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. Upon her return, she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and accepted a visiting faculty position at the

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. In 2004, Bilsky published ''Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial.'' She later sat on the

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Theory and Criticism journal Editorial Board from 2010 until 2012. Before leaving the board, Bilsky received a research grant and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012. In 2013, she was awarded the Zeltner Award for Excellence in Legal Research. That same year, she also became the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University. During the 2015–16 academic year, Bilsky was the William and Patricia Kleh Visiting Professor in International Law at

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. In 2017, she published ''The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law: Unfinished Business'' through the

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Publications

The following is a list of publications: *''Territory, community and political trials'' *''Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial'' (2004) *''Political trials'' *''Giving voice to women: a feminist reading of an Israeli case study'' *''The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law: Unfinished Business'' (2017)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bilsky, Leora Living people 1967 births Yale Law School alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law alumni Academic staff of Tel Aviv University Academic journal editors Israeli women academics 21st-century Israeli women writers Israeli expatriates in the United States